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Drones used for anything more then head count of a property or locating a wounded animal.

When we are up to camp, any deer seen in the yard/neighbors yard are off limits. They are visitors. When I was hunting in Georgia a bunch of years ago, some of the guys there talked about using dogs (legally). They hunted huge tracks of swamp land, which was pretty much inaccessible, so dogs were allowed to move them out. Ok, I get it. But they had one hell of a lot of deer down there, with amazing bag limits. Not my game, but it is thier neighborhood so ok by me. High fence/pay hunts. Nope. Not a hunt. Its a shoot. I have no need to have an engineered freak on my wall. I will be happy with what nature intended them to be. It may take more time given the size of the area, but if you are paying, you are shooting

The whole bait thing would not sit right with me. Just like hunting with dogs if you grew up doing it, it's your way. I just can't see pulling the trigger on a deer munching on a pile of corn. This debate could go on and on JMO.

I like to keep my hunting as natural as possible. What I mean by that is that I do not get involved in things that tend to program or condition deer to change their natural habits and movements in order to assist my ability to hunt them. I am referring to baiting, feeding, and constructing food plots. Yes I admit that in farm country deer movements are influenced by farmers, but that is a natural influence that I have not participated in creating. To me crop land is no different than a nice acorn bearing oak tree or a wild apple tree. It all is food sources that I had no part in placing there. Part of hunting is scouting and finding the existing food sources that the deer are using, but not creating them. I am not into conditioning deer to train them to come to me. They have natural acts of feeding and bedding that I feel I should be able to observe and use as part of my hunting skills. If I can't do that and have to resort to influencing their movements then I feel that I am doing things that really have no business being a part of my hunting methods. I am into hunting deer, not training deer. I know I am in the minority on these subjects, but they are just the limits that I personally put on my hunting to kind of even up the score a bit. This is not a criticism of those that have other opinions. It is just personal limits that I choose to put on my hunting.

Spotlighting and shooting from the truck. You are a poacher and should never be allowed to hunt again. As far as baiting with corn piles it’s the same as hunting food plots and such.

Shooting deer from your vehicle is also a big no-no IMHO. I dont mind speed scouting in the truck, now , but that is the limit. Also, shooting deer in the yard.

Wow, thats a question that floods my mind with hundreds if not thousands of fragmented bits from the recesses of my cerebra, if I had the inclination and talent, could probably write a book. Have to think on it a bit. Robin

Important that you got to hunt with your son! My Neighbor next door has family in Maryland and you are allowed to bait and shoot a ton of deer. I always get invited but never go. Just not my thing.

One for me that comes to mind is I could never be roaming around the house, spot a deer in the back yard grab the rifle and shoot it. To me personally that's not hunting that's grocery shopping at best and not "fair chase". I need to be in the woods actively hunting.

Doc I get what all you said but don't you think we change as hunters as we get older? I know I have. We lay down give back and ease off the trigger. Time flys by us and new ways to hunt or attract deer come about and we as the elders not frown upon it but just don't get it. It's the young generation that will never get what we had. I would take that any day of the week. Cold tent warm fire some grub and do it all over again to harvest a whitetail!

I once killed a button buck from my bedroom window, 2 minutes from the end of ML season. That didn’t feel much different to me than the 8-pointer, that I killed from a tree stand out back, at almost the exact same time last year. He had just stepped into a food plot but was not eating when I shot him. I did have a little (33 minutes) more time until the end last year (thanks to the recent rule change on start/stop time) and a little more cushion on the setback distance from buildings owned by others.

I can't agree with you more. I have hunted in NC with my son with bait piles not far away. It's pretty much the standard way they hunt down there. Its definitely not my preferred way to hunt but it meant getting to hunt with my son which I seldom do anymore so that trumped everything else. I told him I'm not interested in going on any dog hunts. Sent from my moto g power (2022) using Tapatalk

Hummm. How's that quote go? Oh ya. I see I'm living rent free in your head.

For me one thing is hunting deer with dogs. I never even really thought it was much of a thing until my Son's moved to NC. I guess it's kinda common down there and legal. I tell him that's cheating and I personally have no desire to take place in that. I don't know maybe it's just because I was born and raised hunting here in the north. Sent from my moto g power (2022) using Tapatalk

Being a competitive person, the me vs. whitetail has always been a thing. But, I do love the outdoors and being in the woods. Over the years I must admit I am not as motivated some days as years ago, but still get pretty excited to be out chasing big bucks and spending time with old hunting buddies. I think what I miss most though are those days in the woods with my Dad when I was growing up... because the truth is that he was the beginning of it all for me.

Plain and simple; I enjoy hunting. Always been the outdoors type. Working on plans for an all terrain wheel chair, just in case.

My Brother and I were in tree stands from 6:45 until 11:30 AM. We dressed for it. We each saw a small Doe and were happy in the end and sort of patted ourselves on the back for hanging in so long. I think it was 26 degrees with a 10 mph wind. Had a great Brunch 1 hr nap and was back at it by 2:00! Up again at 4:30 ready and able!

I have asked myself this question so many times, and still come away with no one single answer. Yes, there is the challenge of man against animal. Actually back in my trapping days I experienced that challenge thing the most. But even with hunting I have my best times during bow season where the odds are clearly stacked in the deer's favor. I do love to stand there eyeball to eyeball with a deer or even a squirrel. It's a contest between me and them. There are other reasons though. I have always had a feeling that hunting was a link back to the natural predatory nature of humans. There is something primal about the chase. The plotting and planning that are involved and the feeling of conquest when it all comes together in success is the reinforcing motivation to get out there year after year. Then there is the fact that there are those days of calm and sunlight and changing colors of the foliage, and the peace and quiet that makes the hunting woods the place that makes you feel like you would really not want to be anywhere else. There is also the tradition and culture of days way before me when hunting was a way of independence and survival. Even though not much of our equipment comes close to resembling that which our forefathers were stuck with, there is still something about getting your own meat that provides satisfaction that relates back to our roots a bit. Sitting down to a meal of wild game that you have gotten yourself is also a satisfaction that will drive you out into the woods and brush-lots year after year. Even if it is only squirrels or rabbits or game birds or venison. There is also the fact that for our family it has always been a family tradition for generation after generation. Yeah there are a lot of reasons why I get out there every year and get into the hunt, even at 80 years when the struggle to get up that killer hill gets harder every year.....I still do it.